That was full at the weekend

The bloody WI has a lot to answer for!

All of the cats

Poppet and Biscuit making the most of the weekend and me.

Just ordered some American cider

I cleared them out of the variety I bought.  I hope it's nice.

I bought them from here

http://www.beersofeurope.co.uk/

A pretty cool site and would be a nice job.  I guess all you would need is a small warehouse and a connection or two to wholesalers.  You might need a fair amount of capital to get the stock in plus the self control not to try all of the bottles first.

They can do it if they really wanted to

My train was 6 minutes late leaving Tonbridge this morning but still managed to get into Cannon Street 2 minutes early.  This is the first early train i've had this year in fact it's only the 2nd train in the morning that hasn't been at least 5 minutes late.

Well done SouthEastern!  It almost makes the £4k i'm about to give you for my season ticket worth it.  Almost.

Super bowl night

I'm holding another Super Bowl night next Sunday.  Should be fun.  There's 5 of us this year which will be good.

My brother bought me a big box of American craft beers for Christmas so have held them back and will grab a load of Buds.  There will be 2 cider drinkers coming though so have been doing a little research on that.  I don't think America really does cider.

I'm going to do a trial run on pulled pork, ribs and sweetcorn fritters this weekend.  I've already perfected chicken wings, deep fried and with hot sauce.  I might make some chili so I can do chili dogs too.

Appraisal 2015

I had my annual appraisal this morning and all went well.  As expected, I got the standard score of 3/5 as in fully achieved.  Phew...

I'll have to wait another 2-3 months to find out how much i'll get in my bonus.  With any luck it'll be a bit more than last year.  We shall see.

Burns night

I went to my first burns night on Saturday.  Despite feeling ill and getting forced to down lots of drink it was good fun.  The hosts even managed to get one of their friends who pays the bagpipes (but lives in New Zealand) to send us over a special recording his noise.

The haggis was surprising tasty. Although it could have done with being flambéed a little less though. The poor thing was pretty much on fire for the best part of 5 minutes.

More hand troubles

We were thumped at rugby yesterday.  52-22. Quote a good game for the neutrals, and I guess, also for the winners.

My thumb on my right hand had not really healed since last week's game but too late for me to call off so played anyway. I hurt it again, and also the index finger on the same hand.  It's pretty sore.

I also got a bloody nose when one of my own players stood on my face by accident. I hope it was an accident...

I'm not playing next week as I'm giving my hand a chance to recover.

Not feeling great today

So have mostly been lying on the couch.  The cats have been keeping me warm though.

But I'm an equal opportunity cat owner.

I guess you have to grow up at some point

We picked up our new car yesterday. Not quite as fun as the old TT but it's still pretty quick.  I guess you have to grow up at some point.